Our readers remember a brochure with the same title published by Mr. Flammarion that we made reference with a deserved praise in the Spiritist Review of January 1863. The success of the little book led the author to develop the same thesis in a more complete piece of work in which the issue is treated in every angle that it encompasses from the point of view of Astronomy, Physics and natural Philosophy.
He makes abstraction of Spiritism and for that very reason he addresses both the followers as well as the non-believers. However, since the theory of the plurality of the inhabited worlds is intimately linked to the Spiritist Doctrine it is very nice to see it consecrated by science and philosophy. From that point of view the remarkable work of science has its place guaranteed in the libraries of the Spiritists.
It is from the same point of view, abstraction made of the revelation of the Spirits, that the important issue of the plurality of the existences will be handled in a book in preparation, edited by Mr. Didier & Co. The name of the author, known in the scientific world, is a guarantee that his book will be up to the task.
